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behavior. Top, a scene from Rompiendo el silencio (Breaking the Silence), a Spanish-language video linked to a safer-sex intervention among Latinas in the Washington Heights neighborhood of northern Manhattan, New York.

Encyclopedia of AIDS ◽

10.4324/9780203305492-94 ◽

1998 ◽

pp. 500-510

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Safer Sex ◽

Spanish Language ◽

Washington Heights

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Restrictions imposed by the U.S. government bar noncitizens with HIV/AIDS from entering the country. Such restrictions prevented these international AIDS activists from attending international conferences in the United States, including Dutch activist Hans Paul Verhoef (standing center) who was arrested and held at the border by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS).

Encyclopedia of AIDS ◽

10.4324/9780203305492-89 ◽

1998 ◽

pp. 465-482

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

International Aids ◽

Immigration And Naturalization Service ◽

The U.S ◽

Hiv Aids

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AIDS-awareness campaigns have often employed imagery and messages designed for gay men, women, or adolescents but have targeted middle-aged heterosexual men less commonly. This poster from the Swiss “Stop AIDS” campaign addresses itself directly to the latter group with the message, in French: “I’ve never kept faithful to any woman. But always to the condom.”

Encyclopedia of AIDS ◽

10.4324/9780203305492-84 ◽

1998 ◽

pp. 428-439

Keyword(s):

Gay Men ◽

Heterosexual Men ◽

Middle Aged ◽

Awareness Campaigns ◽

Aids Awareness

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instead a harm-reduction agenda. The harm-elimination approach has often been adopted in the United States, but harm-reduction programs are more prevalent in Canada, western Europe, and Australia.

Encyclopedia of AIDS ◽

10.4324/9780203305492-82 ◽

1998 ◽

pp. 411-418

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Harm Reduction ◽

Western Europe ◽

The United States

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The first U.S. made-for-television movie about AIDS was An Early Frost, starring Aidan Quinn (right) as a gay lawyer with AIDS, with Ben Gazzara and Gena Rowlands as his parents. The film is credited with breaking the silence about AIDS in television drama and working to dispel common myths about AIDS.

Encyclopedia of AIDS ◽

10.4324/9780203305492-74 ◽

1998 ◽

pp. 376-380

Keyword(s):

Television Drama

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As part of the first German national conference of people living with HIV/AIDS in 1990, participants demonstrated in the city of Frankfurt am Main. The banner translates roughly as “Passion needs no justification,” reflecting a rejection of the blame often placed on people who contract HIV through sexual activity.

Encyclopedia of AIDS ◽

10.4324/9780203305492-70 ◽

1998 ◽

pp. 361-363

Keyword(s):

Sexual Activity ◽

People Living With Hiv ◽

Frankfurt Am Main ◽

National Conference ◽

Living With Hiv ◽

The City ◽

Hiv Aids

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Prison inmates generally lack access to clean needles and condoms while incarcerated because both drug use and sex are illegal in prisons. This inmate at a correctional facility in Rahway, New Jersey, unsuccessfully lobbied prison administrators in 1985 for sterile-needle and condom distribution behind bars.

Encyclopedia of AIDS ◽

10.4324/9780203305492-51 ◽

1998 ◽

pp. 274-280

Keyword(s):

New Jersey ◽

Drug Use ◽

Correctional Facility ◽

Prison Inmates ◽

Condom Distribution ◽

Sterile Needle

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U.S. Representative Ted Weiss, a Democrat from New York, holding a congressional hearing about AIDS funding in 1985. Most of the members of Congress who paid attention to AIDS issues during the early 1980s represented major cities with large gay populations.

Encyclopedia of AIDS ◽

10.4324/9780203305492-50 ◽

1998 ◽

pp. 266-273

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Congressional Hearing

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care to people with HIV/AIDS but has also been criticized for opposing homosexuality and safer-sex practices, a position often called “hate the sin, love the sinner.”

Encyclopedia of AIDS ◽

10.4324/9780203305492-43 ◽

1998 ◽

pp. 229-233

Keyword(s):

Safer Sex ◽

Safer Sex Practices ◽

Sex Practices ◽

Hiv Aids

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sexual activity among gay men. After the emergence of AIDS, a debate raged in major U.S. cities as to whether gay bathhouses should be closed as threats to the public health or kept open and used as effective sites for safer-sex education.

Encyclopedia of AIDS ◽

10.4324/9780203305492-32 ◽

1998 ◽

pp. 186-187

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Sexual Activity ◽

Gay Men ◽

Sex Education ◽

Safer Sex ◽

The Public

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behavior. Top, a scene from Rompiendo el silencio (Breaking the Silence), a Spanish-language video linked to a safer-sex intervention among Latinas in the Washington Heights neighborhood of northern Manhattan, New York.

instead a harm-reduction agenda. The harm-elimination approach has often been adopted in the United States, but harm-reduction programs are more prevalent in Canada, western Europe, and Australia.

U.S. Representative Ted Weiss, a Democrat from New York, holding a congressional hearing about AIDS funding in 1985. Most of the members of Congress who paid attention to AIDS issues during the early 1980s represented major cities with large gay populations.

care to people with HIV/AIDS but has also been criticized for opposing homosexuality and safer-sex practices, a position often called “hate the sin, love the sinner.”

sexual activity among gay men. After the emergence of AIDS, a debate raged in major U.S. cities as to whether gay bathhouses should be closed as threats to the public health or kept open and used as effective sites for safer-sex education.

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behavior. Top, a scene from Rompiendo el silencio (Breaking the Silence), a Spanish-language video linked to a safer-sex intervention among Latinas in the Washington Heights neighborhood of northern Manhattan, New York.

instead a harm-reduction agenda. The harm-elimination approach has often been adopted in the United States, but harm-reduction programs are more prevalent in Canada, western Europe, and Australia.

U.S. Representative Ted Weiss, a Democrat from New York, holding a congressional hearing about AIDS funding in 1985. Most of the members of Congress who paid attention to AIDS issues during the early 1980s represented major cities with large gay populations.

care to people with HIV/AIDS but has also been criticized for opposing homosexuality and safer-sex practices, a position often called “hate the sin, love the sinner.”

sexual activity among gay men. After the emergence of AIDS, a debate raged in major U.S. cities as to whether gay bathhouses should be closed as threats to the public health or kept open and used as effective sites for safer-sex education.

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